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Driving Like Crazy Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-Bending, Celebrating America the Way It's Supposed To Be ? With an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac Escalade in Every Carport, and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Mowing Our Lawn

by: O'Rourke, P. J.

Driving Like Crazy Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-Bending, Celebrating America the Way It's Supposed To Be ? With an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac Escalade in Every Carport, and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Mowing Our Lawn

by: O'Rourke, P. J.

ISBN 13:
9780802144799
ISBN 10:
0802144799
Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 05/11/2010
Publisher: Grove Press

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Spanning 30 years, this collection chronicles famed humorist and gearhead P.J. O'Rourke's love affair with the automobile from mid-20th century to now, from heyday to sickbay.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: The End of the American Car	p. xv
How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink	p. 1
How to Drive Fast When the Drugs Are Mostly Lipitor, the Wing-Wang Needs More Squeezing Than It Used to Before It Gets the Idea, and Spilling Your Drink Is No Problem if You Keep the Sippy Cups from When Your Kids Were Toddlers and Leave the Baby Seat in the Back Seat so that When You Get Pulled Over You Look Like a Perfectly Innocent Grandparent	p. 13
Sgt. Dynaflo's Last Patrol	p. 27
NASCAR was Discovered By Me	p. 49
The Rolling Organ Donors Motorcycle Club	p. 59
"Come On Over to My House-We're Gonna Jump off the Roof!"	p. 77
A Test of Men and Machines That We Flunked	p. 101
A Better Land Than This	p. 109
Getting Wrecked	p. 131
Keep Your Eyes Off the Road	p. 145
Comparative Jeepology 101	p. 161
Taking My Baby for a Ride	p. 175
ReinCARnation	p. 187
The Geezers' Grand Prix	p. 215
Call for a New National Park	p. 227
A Ride to the Funny in a Special Needs Station Wagon Complete with Booby Hatch	p. 233
Big Love	p. 245
The Other End of the American Car	p. 251
Interview	p. 259
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Driving Like Crazy Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-Bending, Celebrating America the Way It's Supposed To Be ? With an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac Escalade in Every Carport, and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Mowing Our Lawn

Driving Like Crazy Thirty Years of Vehicular Hell-Bending, Celebrating America the Way It's Supposed To Be ? With an Oil Well in Every Backyard, a Cadillac Escalade in Every Carport, and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Mowing Our Lawn

9780802144799

0802144799

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